The pipeline carrying Sudan’s crude oil to a Red Sea port was blown up early on Monday morning, state television reported. The secretary-general of the ministry of energy and mining was quoted as saying the export pipeline at Singat, about 345 km east of Khartoum, had been “subjected to a limited act of sabotage”. State television said exports would not be delayed because of the volumes of oil stored at Port Bashir, on the Red Sea. A spokesman for the Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy Inc. said the damaged should be fixed in about three days, Reuters reported. The company has faced vociferous protest over its operations in Sudan. State television said leaflets found at the site indicated the sabotage was carried out by the Beja Congress, part of the opposition National Democratic Alliance. It is the third act of sabotage on the 1,610 km pipeline since it started to pump oil last August, according to Reuters.
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